Hang on now… at the advent of games we didn’t have an internet. Doom was the high days of gaming, but games were played more than a decade before that. If you wanted a guide you had to mail order it from a catalog. So yeah, access to information about games has changed a lot. A game like the original bard’s tale on the commodore 64 could use riddles as a part of the game because you couldn’t just go look up the answer. Can’t do that anymore.
Yeah I’m not so sure about that. I played Bards Tale when it came out and yes of course I did a lot of my own research, etc. but that kind information still got around in the form of BBSes, magazines, AOL, CompuServe and of course word of mouth. Everyone knew the Contra code despite the lack of ubiquitous internet.
Hang on now… at the advent of games we didn’t have an internet. Doom was the high days of gaming, but games were played more than a decade before that. If you wanted a guide you had to mail order it from a catalog. So yeah, access to information about games has changed a lot. A game like the original bard’s tale on the commodore 64 could use riddles as a part of the game because you couldn’t just go look up the answer. Can’t do that anymore.
Yeah I’m not so sure about that. I played Bards Tale when it came out and yes of course I did a lot of my own research, etc. but that kind information still got around in the form of BBSes, magazines, AOL, CompuServe and of course word of mouth. Everyone knew the Contra code despite the lack of ubiquitous internet.
The advent of online multiplayer, not gaming itself.